Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Before and After

If we look at life about two and a half years ago, meal planning consisted of thinking it'd be good to have fish once a week and trying not to have the same type of meat twice in a row-in other words beef, pork, chicken, lather, rinse, repeat. We ate out several nights a week, as well as every Sunday after church. Fast food was a regular part of our diet. I tried to make sure we got a variety of foods but that was about the extent of making healthy choices.

Had you told me then that just about everything we eat would be made from scratch-by me-I would have laughed literally out loud. Yeah, I enjoyed cooking and baking, but not to the point of making bread on a regular basis or homemade crackers. I baked cookies when we were in the mood, not because it was a better choice health wise. Probably the biggest reason for my disbelief would have been that I just don't have the energy to do all that cooking and baking.

In January of 2009 my chiropractor suggested that I have adrenal fatigue. I'd never heard of it, but a bit of research lined everything up. A bit more research and we started applying a few changes:

Bought baby chicks so we could have farm fresh eggs (then added two adults because we didn't want to wait!)

Discovered how expensive raw milk is and decided to buy a couple of goats to have our own fresh, raw, milk.